Reply To: [unofficial weekender] When is too much too much?

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@sundancer nah, every engineer worth his degree over-engineers his pet projects all of the time …

that doesn’t mean they’re closet Germans 😉

Like this bottle opener that Adam Savage did :

ok … so Laura Kampf is German, maybe it did infect him a little ? 😉

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1) When is too much hobby too much? At what point do you go: f*ck this, I’m out!
interesting … maybe it is when I realise how many things I have to build and paint before a project is completed ?
Or maybe I’m just too easily distracted by new shiny, so I don’t get the chance to build momentum even if all the stuff I want is available to me.
It is something to think about.

2) Did you every experience a “oh I totally forgot how much fun this is” moment with a game/system you’ve abandoned long ago?
The few times I’ve gone back to old videogames it was more like ‘how could I possibly have enjoyed that?’
It’s why I probably don’t understand the retro-game craze.

Given that I never really got into any game I can’t say I’ve abandoned and rediscovered them.
I suppose Bolt-Action and FoW kind of could be like that as I haven’t played either of them since their respective bootcamps.
However I am looking forward to playing either again, but for that to happen I need to build me an army (or two).

With 2020 being what it is my chances of finding an opponent and playing a game are practically zero.

3) Where have all the flowers gone?
They got de-flowered ? 😉

Seeing all the progress in this thread makes me realise I’m procastrinating again … ok not really. I did do stuff like build a 1:1 scale ikea model.

I got my Soviet Bagration book, the unit cards, command cards and the basics of the plastic for my Soviet army.
I’ve also started a new (private) project to detail all the stuff I’m doing and have a space for my thoughts.

I think I’ve also gone down the rabbit hole that is historical gaming by ordering a few books that might help :

1. German and Russian Tank Models 1939-45
   Author : Mario Eens
   Publisher : Casemate Publishers
   ISBN : 9781612007359
   First edition March 2019
2. The Tank Book
   The Definitive Visual History of Armoured Vehicles
   Author : DK
   Publisher : Dorling Kingsley Ltd
   ISBN : 9780241250310
   First edition April 2017
3. Operation Bagration
   The destruction of German Army group Center, 1944
   Author : Ian Baxter
   Publisher : Casemate Publishers
   ISBN 9781612009230
   First edition October 2020

The last one is a bit of a gamble, but it promised pictures …
I don’t know when the books will arrive, but I hope to see at least one of them this week.

Reading the book and looking at the cards has given me a few ideas already :
(1) IS-2 tanks … they’re big, they’re brutal,they’re not tigers and might distract enough to use the rest of the army
(2) the ‘decoy tank company’ card looks interesting and an opportunity to paint captured German tanks is fun
(3) more infantry (I think the ‘official’ box has too few, so I may need more)
(4) maybe a couple of Stalins’ Organs ’cause they’re cool ?
…

I don’t know if it will be a historical correct army, but getting it build and painted is my first priority.
Should give me a few weeks of stuff to do.

oh … and with Orktober next month I might want to reserve time for my Orkz & Goblinoids too.